Ship In a Bottle - Fin Argus

What it means to me

What it means to me

This song is all about facing your feelings and fears and as someone who frequently gets anxious over small things, this is comforting to me. It is also one of my favorite songs because it has a beautiful melody. I also chose it because I realized it has a bunch of Figurative Language.

Lyrics

Lyrics

You can fit everything you know

In a bottle for you to show

Pick your brain apart and put it in

And build it again with needles and pins

Everything you have earned is a ship

With blue waves crashing into it

But nothing can touch your happy thoughts anymore

With your glass ceiling, walls, and floor

Sailing on a ship in a bottle

Anchor all your thoughts to the bottom

Pulling ropes and pulling your head back

To see what is breaking the foremast

You set sail alone, there is no crew

No one on the deck who can help you

This is all your own battle to win

This is your ship and you are the captain

Oh, captain, let's make a deal

Where we both say the things that we both really feel

I feel scared and I'm starting to sink

And I only sink deeper the deeper I think

Oh, captain, oh, captain, deal

Oh, captain, deal, oh, captain, deal, oh

There are red spots under your eyes

From when you cry into the sky

Ocean waters rising above your neck, mmm

You feel the glass start to crack

Sailing on a ship in a bottle

Water's leaking through holes in the bottom

Flying flags of ships that have long since

Sat at the floor of the sea, but in defense

You set sail alone, there is no crew

No one on the deck who can help you

This is all your own battle to win

This is your ship and you are the captain

Oh, captain, let's make a deal

Where we both say the things that we both really feel

I feel scared and I'm starting to sink

And I only sink deeper the deeper I think

Oh, captain, make up your mind

Before the salt burns your eyes and you run out of time

'Cause you're popping the cork, you get lost in your brain

And you lose touch with all the things that made you feel sane

Oh, captain, oh, captain, deal

Oh, captain, deal, oh, captain, deal, oh

Oh, captain, let's make a deal

Where we both say the things that we both really feel

I feel scared and I'm starting to sink

And I only sink deeper the deeper I think

Oh, captain, make up your mind

Before the salt burns your eyes and you run out of time

'Cause you're popping the cork, you get lost in your brain

And you lose touch with all the things that made you feel sane

Oh, captain, oh, captain, deal

Oh, captain, deal, oh, captain, deal, oh

"Pick your brain apart and put it in

And build it again with needles and pins"

This is an example of an idiom because it has another meaning as you cannot actually take your brain apart.

Idiom

"Everything you have earned is a ship"

Metaphor

This is a metaphor as it is comparing what you have earned in life to a ship.

"Oh, captain, oh, captain, deal

Oh, captain, deal, oh, captain, deal, oh"

Repetition

This is an example of repetition as it is repeating the same phrase over and over again.

"Flying flags of ships that have long since

Sat at the floor of the sea, but in defense"

Alliteration

This is an example of an Alliteration because Flying, Flags, and Floor all start with an F sound.

"I feel scared and I'm starting to sink

And I only sink deeper the deeper I think"

Assonance

This is an example of an assonance because the words sink and think both end in 'ink'